![]() ![]() Lost Ocean: An Inky Adventure and Coloring Book is, as you might imagine, a pirate’s treasure trove of under-the-sea pattern work just waiting to be assaulted with colors of your choosing. Friends kept advising her that she needed to work in color, while clients like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Tate Modern, Starbucks, and Absolut Vodka kept hiring her for what she does – wonderfully intricate black and white pen and ink drawings. But then, I fell in love with Basford’s monochromatic, hand-drawn, pattern-based illustrations years before she started doing coloring books for adults. ![]() I am an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels. Johannas intricate, hand-drawn illustrations are loved by her many fans to date she has sold over 21 million colouring books worldwide. Lost Ocean is her third inky coloring book, and it’s as beautiful as the first two. Johanna Basford johannabasford 91.8K subscribers 182 videos Hello, my name is Johanna. Johanna Basford is the ink evangelist and creator of Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest, Lost Ocean, Magical Jungle, Johannas Christmas and Ivy and the Inky Butterfly. Secret Garden was a huge success, and Basford followed with another book, Enchanted Forest, earlier this year. ![]() Scottish illustrator, Johanna Basford, led the recent explosion of adult coloring books with Secret Garden (2013), a collection of pen-and-ink illustrations based upon castle gardens and specifically upon her childhood visits to the Isle of Arran where her grandfather was the head gardener at Brodick Castle. ![]()
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